The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OFFICIAL STATISTICS Snow InaO lar less was eaJen
and drank in Paris last year than in 1885, ard
that the consumption of provisions has steadily
declined ever since 1881.
CHICAGO MONEY LENDERS do not all have hearts
of stone. One of them, who had mortgage Of
500 on a widows sewing machine, let her OFT
after she had paid interest amounting to S17S.
STANLEY evidently doesn't intend to ruin his
patron, King Leopold, by paying salaries in
Africa. He only gives Tippoo lib $3.50 a year
for being Governor of Stanley Falls and main
tanning the authority of the Congo State.
A CERTAIN current slang phrase has been
traced to no less o person than John Bunyan.
In The Pilgrims Progress occurs the passage:
when it is a cold day for them in nation,
then they Turk in the hedges, though their ordi-
nances lie there as leaves that are dry and fallen
down from the tree.
NJ. FLoRAE DE VHLEPIGNE. of Paris, has de-
vised an instrument called the autographometer,
which records automatically the topography and
difference of level of ali places over which it
passes. 1t is carried about on a light vehicle,
and those who wish to use it have nothing to do
but to haul it, or have it hauled, over the ground
of which they desire to obtain plan
LOUIS DUB left Russia about two years ago
and reached Cincinnati, O., without n cent. He
BACKED boots, and soon saved $500 He then
sent money to his mother in Russia and she
came to Cincinnati. Louis now owns two fine
horses which he rides for pleasure. He is at
present making money selling eyeglasses He
will soon take pleasure trip to California.
THOUGH Brooklyn has nearly 100000 inhabi-
tants, it has neither public library nor a soil
tary art gallery. The citizens complain that the
wealthy men bestow their benefactfons upon
public institutions in other places. EX-Congress-
men Chittenden has just given 100000 to Yale
College and George |. Seney has made present
of $4,000 worth of pictures to the New York
Museum of Art.
often seen than that of President Lincoln sit
ting with big book on his knee, and his little
son Tad leaning against him and looking at it
with him. The book was then thought to be d
Bible, but it wasn't i was photographer
Brady's picture album. which the President was
examining with Nilsson while some ladies stood
by. The artist begged the President TO remain
quiet, and the picture was taken.
WALL STREET is inquiring what has become of
all the trade dollars Up to the present time
the sub-treasury has received but about 81, 700-
600 for redemption and the applications nave
nearly ceased: The few that are offered come
chiefly from the country. The theory is that
when the coin was selling at S5c. many were
melted and used for manufacturing purposes
The coin being 900 fine ard containing 400
grains, it was cheaper than bullion.
A PLEBIsCITE on the question of the liquor
traffic was recently taken in Glasgow and its
suburbs. There we're e, 246 householders in ia
NOr OF LQe people having compete control or
the liquor traffic by their votes and 535 against
57,704 were i'll favor of entire prohibition and
19,411 against; Il, Az were favorable to a reduc
ton in the present number of licensed houses
and 1891 against, 6S, 302 were opposed and H.
235 not opposed to all new licenses.
THE commission employed to take a census of
the Umatilla Indians finds the following to be
the translation of some of their names:
Rough and Noisy" the names of two boys
Tree Shaded by Wind, Cry All the Time, -
the names of women; lone Who Starts to Go
One Place and Then Goes Another" Grizzly
Bear Stepping on a HILL the names of men
The names of four women translated into Eng
lish were Rafting While Running Dressing
While Running" Afraid of q Yankee" and
Throw a Leg Over the Moon"
In Russia, on the northern railways, the loco
motives hitherto burning wood or coal, are be-
ing adapted for peat burning, the saving being
estimated at some 80 per cent. In many places
the peat is cut by hand machines, but these,
although cheap and easy to work, have the
drawback that the peat cannot be worked below
eight feet whereas the peat cutting machines
worked by steam power penetrate twenty feet,
and reach the lower, delser layers of peat,
which, owing to their superior quality, command
higher price in the market.
NJ. LIGNER, an Austrian meteorologist, claims
to have ascertained after careful investigation
that the moon has an influence on a magnetized
needle varying with its phases and its declina-
ton. The phenomenon is said to be more
prominently noticeable when the moon is near
the EARTH and to be very marked when she is
passing from the full to her first or second QUAR-
ter. The disturbances are found to be at their
maximum when the moon is in the plane of the
equator, and greater during the southern than
it is during the northern declination.
Down in Missouri the other day." said
drummer, Il came across one of the queerest
cases ever heard of, 1t was a commercial
traveller who can neither read nor write. He is
one of the handsomeSt and livelieSt fellows [
ever met, an Al talker, but he can't read five
words and can barely write his own name Be
sides, he doesn't want TO learn. When his Gus
toners give him orders he has them write ont
lists of goods they desire and such letters as he
has to get off he coaXes hotel clerks and other
travelling men to write for him He is light
ming salesman too, and one of the most popu-
lar men in his territory"
GEORGE P. RowEL1 & Co. s new edition of the
American Newspaper Directory" to be pub
lished on May :, will show that the number of
papers published in the United States Terrific
ries Gncluding Alaska) and Canada is 1920. an
increase of 5Sl i'll one year. The growth of
newspapers in some Of the Western States is re-
markable. In Kansas the increase is So and in
Nebraska 81, while Pennsylvania shows a smaller
advance of IS and Ohio 3d. Pennsylvania ex-
hibits the largest increase in dailies II: Kansas
in weeklies, 81. and New York in monthlies az
Seven States show decrease, the most prominent
instances being New Hampshire and Virginia,
6 each.
THE water supply of the various European
capitals affords some interesting facts, not the
least notable of which is that Rome heads the
list with her 204000,000 litres of pure water-a
litre being little more than 134 pints-every
twenty-four hours, and as her population is
3l1,036. every inhabitant can thus dispose Of
nearly 600 litres per day. London comes next
for every one OF whose population of rising
4UOO,OOO there are 300 litres daily Paris takes
the third place, her population amounting to
2,2lO,l2i, and each inbabitant having for ali
nehtary purposes SO litres per day, and for sec
ondary uses 1853, or total OF 227 Berlin has
l,6J9,253 inhabitants, for each of whom there are
40 ltreS daily; Vienna 40, 172 inhabitants with
100 ltres each per day Naples, 4G3, l72, with 200
litles, and Turin 27S,50S, with 80 htres a head
every twenty-four hours
ABOUT o'clock the other morning in Chica
go, Night Waterman Tom White was passing
10y the owl saloon when he noticed a pane Of
glass missing from the front door, Examina-
ton showed that the glass had been neatly cut
out with diamond such as accomplished
tnieveS use. As he stood there he heard some
one moving around within. He fired of his re-
volver TO wakcn the inmates upstairs The
proprietor soon appeared, and with reviewers in
then hands the two began a search crash
ing OF bottles and glasses told the burglars
whereabouts. Peering behind the bar, a little
boy was found lying on a shelf He was az
grleved at being caught, and said DE udder
teller's in de ce-bOX.' Sure enough, when tho
door was opened there lay another lad The
bows nfta known uN ItnrnV WiiIfop,e and lapii